United Theological College

Jione Havea is a native of Tonga, ordained by the Methodist Church of Tonga, and interested in cultural modes of thinking, reading and behaving, as those relate to biblical and nonliterary texts. Jione likes to congregate around talanoa (story, telling, conversation) with islanders at Parklea Prison; enjoys a good laugh at Fofo‘anga over a bowl of kava and a deck of cards; is active in the gatherings of Talanoa Oceania, Oceania Biblical Studies Association, Society of Asian Biblical Studies and Society of Biblical Literature; and currently engages in various writing projects: Islands, islanders and Bible (Semeia Studies, SBL; co-edits with Margaret Aymer Oget and Steed Davidson); Bible, Borders, Belongings (with Elaine Wainwright and David Neville); Reading the bible in Oceania: An introduction (for OBSA and International Voices in Biblical Studies, SBL).

Research interests

Genesis–2 Kings; narrative and legal revisions; critical theory; oceanic cultures and island hermeneutics; postcolonial and crosscultural studies.

• Publications

   

   

  2011 “Welcome” and “Return, Medium of Endor.” Pp. 1-10 and 255-266 in Jione Havea and Clive Pearson (eds), Out of Place: Doing Theology in Crosscultural Brinks. London: Equinox

  2011 “Rising seas, drifting bones, disintegrating islands.” Interface: A Forum for Theology in the World (Water: A Matter of Life and Death, eds. Norman Habel and Peter Trudinger). 14.1: 35-48

  2011 “Lazarus troubles.” Pp. 157-73 in Ken Stone and Holly Toensing (eds.), Bible Trouble: Queer reading at the Boundaries of Biblical Scholarship. Atlanta: SBL

  2011 “Ocean Sunday.” Pp. 180-91 in Norman Habel, David Rhoads and Paul Santmire (eds.), Seasons of Creation: A Preaching Commentary. Minneapolis: Fortress

  2011 “Is shalom enough? Drifting peace, in the waters of Oceania.”  The Pacific Journal of Theology Series II. 45 (March): 28-43

  2011 “Pasifika secrets.” Pp. 203-215 in Fumitaka Matsuoka, Heup Young Kim and Anri Morimoto (eds.), Asian and Oceanic Christianities in Conversation: Exploring Theological Identities at Home and in Diaspora.  Studies in World Christianity and Interreligious Relations 47.  Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi

  2011 “Back to basics: The widow of Zarephath,” co-authored with Monica J. Melanchthon.  Sandeshharika: A journal on women 1.1 (Feb): 5-10

  2010 (ed) Talanoa Ripples: Across Borders, Cultures, Disciplines... Auckland: Masilamea Press & Massey University

  2010 “Mothering: Eve, Hagar and Mistress of Joseph.” Pp. 76-98 in Women in the Bible and in Theological Education, ed. Richard E.A. Rodgers. New Delhi: ISPCK

  2010 “David w[e]aves.” Pp. 289-301 in Tod Linafelt, Claudia V. Camp, Timothy Beal (eds), The Fate of King David: The Past and Present of a Biblical Icon. T & T Clark International

  2010 “Welcome to Talanoa” and “Sea of talanoa: gift and gifting.” Pp. 11-22 and 180-192 in Jione Havea (ed), Talanoa ripples: Across borders, cultures, disciplines .... Auckland: Masilamea Press and Massey University

  2010 “The politics of climate change, a talanoa from Oceania.” International Journal of Public Theology 4:345-355

  2010 “Going public with postcolonial hermeneutics.”  Gurukul Journal of Theological Studies XXI.2: 38-46

  2010 “Biblical interpretation in Oceania.”  P. 123 in Daniel Patte (ed), The Cambridge Dictionary of Christianity. New York: Cambridge University Press

  
  Forthcoming
  “The bible on postmodern surfaces.” In Antonios Kireopoulos (ed), Theology in the U.S. Today: Churches on the Journey. Paulist

   “First peoples, Minority critics: From Nineveh to Oceania, with Jonah.” In Roland Boer, Julie Kelso, Michael Carden (eds), He who reads may run: Essays in honor of Edgar W. Conrad. T & T Clark

   “Crossing cultures in Oceania.” In Stephen Filipo and Naomi Fuamatu (eds), Whispers and Vanities in Samoan Indigenous Religious Culture

   “Cons of contextuality ... Kontextuality.” In Stephen Bevans and Katalina Tahaafe-Williams (eds), Contextual Theology of the Twenty-First Century. Eugene, OR: Wipf & Stock

   “Mission of justice, and talanoa around 1 Kings 21.” In Joseph Prabhakar Dayam (ed), Mission At and From the Margins. Geneva: WCC

   “Numbers 32” and “Jonah.” In Mark Roncace (ed), Global perspectives on the bible

   “The bible groans.” In Randolph Turner (ed), All Creation Groans: The Eco-crisis and Sustainable Living. London: CWM

  Current projects

  “Roots/routes of Oceania: Migration.” For Elaine Padilla and Peter Phan (eds), Migration, World Christianity, Theology. Palgrave

   “The End-or-Medium and the Repress of the Returned.” For Erin Runions and Tat-siong Benny Liew, Psychoanalytic Mediations: Reading the Bible between Marxism and Postcolonialism. Atlanta: SBL

   “Digging behind songlines: Australia’s fairness, David’s reign, Tonga’s prayer.” For Anita Monro and Stephen Burns (eds), Not behind our backs: Feminist challenges to Public Theology. London: Equinox

   “Mother and son down under, at the Foot of the cross.” Co-author with Anita Monro

   Books in Tongan

  2012 ‘Otua, Tonga mo kitaua.

  2010 Lōlenga faka‘uhinga fakamotu. Kalaka, Tongatapu: Nomoa

  2008 Tāsilisili he Tohitapu. Kalaka, Tongatapu: Nomoa

  2007 Tāsilisili mo’o e kau fie-malanga. Kalaka, Tongatapu: Nomoa

  2001 (ed) Molomolomuiva‘e: Tu‘a‘ofa ki he ngalu. Ko e okooko ‘a Sione ‘Amanaki Havea. Nuku‘alofa, Tonga: Nomoa

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